University of the Western Cape 60 years of Hope, Action and Knowledge built on Social Justice, Community Engagement and Graduate Employability.
#IamUWC
The University of the Western Cape (UWC) was honoured to confer a cum laude Nuclear Physics on Senamile Masango (32) who is one of only a few women in South Africa to boast with a degree in this field.
#UWCAprilGrad2019
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BREAKING: As the country struggles through lockdown, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases & UWC’s South African National Bioinformatics Institute have successfully sequenced SA's first SARS-COV-2 genome - a vital step in fighting
#COVID19
.
#IamUWC
#Day11ofLockdown
A new Cape Derby is born in
@varsitycup
. UCT's Vice-Chancellor
@FabAcademic
and UWC's Vice-Chancellor Prof Tyrone Pretorius share a lighthearted moment at tonight's match.
In Loving Memory Of Dr Carolina Ödman. The
@UWCSciences
and the Department of Physics and Astronomy are heartbroken at the passing of our dear colleague, Professor Carolina Ödman.
#IamUWC
[Watch] The moment UWC cricketer Zubayr Hamza walks out to bat in his test debut for the Proteas, making history today by becoming the first cricketer from UWC and the 100th player to represent the Proteas in the 5-day format.
Welcome to live coverage of the official opening of UWC's new Faculty of Community and Health Sciences in the heart of the Bellville CBD. Higher Education and Training Minister Naledi Pandor will unveil the plaque. Follow the coverage by using
#CHSbuilding
It is with sadness that the University of the Western Cape confirms the passing, earlier today, of Springbok legend and UWC head coach, Chester Williams. Our thoughts and prayers are with loved ones.
Well done to the Law Faculty’s Child Law Moot Court team! They won the 10th Annual Child Law Moot competition held in Pretoria. Congratulations to Amanda Mpedi, Kirsten Davids and their coach Thandeka Khoza.
#celebrating40years
READ: From football to a PhD: With his thesis tackling nanochemical diagnostic devices to detect antibiotics in water bodies, Siyabulela Hamnca has become the first PhD graduate from Nduli, Ceres. He’s also a key member of the
@UWC_Footy
side.
#ClassOf2019
Today UWC celebrates 60 years of hope, action and knowledge with a virtual anniversary launch - take a journey through the decades, as we highlight the University's milestones built on Social Justice, Community Engagement and Graduate Employability.
#IamUWC
#UWC60
UWC wishes our
@UWCSport
cricketer Zuybayr Hamza (
@Zuby_Hamza
) the best of luck on his Test debut today VS Pakistan. Congratulations on your Test cap Zubayr!
#IamUWC
READ: Zubayr Hamza has made history today by becoming the first cricketer from UWC to play Test cricket for South Africa - and the 100th player to represent the Proteas in the 5-day format.
Vice-Chancellors of all 26 universities in SA has issued this statement calling for a meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa to discuss the murders of two students and the recent scourge of gender based violence. UWC's Vice-Chancellor, Prof Tyrone Pretorius, is a signatory.
🎓
#UWCGrad2020
: Mbekezeli Nxumalo’s love of mathematics has taken him from rural KwaZulu-Natal, Pongola all the way to the University of the Western Cape, where he’s become one of UWC’s first cum laude recipient of an MSc in Pure Mathematics-Topology and Category Theory.
#IamUWC
With a profound sense of sadness and loss, we share the news of the passing of our former Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Prof Brian O'Connell, who served from 2001 to 2014. He became Rector at one of the most challenging times in the history of UWC
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Photo Credit: UWC Media
Congratulations to UWC student, photographer and media officer
@_skhu_
, who has been nominated to serve on the
@FISU
Media and Communications Committee for the next three years – a first for the University!
#IamUWC
#SportPhotography
[READ] His dream has always been to come to South Africa to study astrophysics. Today, Harris Yao Marc can proudly say he became the first to earn a PhD in astrophysics in his home country, the Ivory Coast.
#IamUWC
[READ] UWC alumna makes history
UWC alumna and reigning African Women Footballer of the Year, Thembi Kgatlana, has written her name into the history books once again, having scored South Africa’s first goal in a FIFA Women's World Cup.
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[READ] Dr Raji Odutayo Rufai, who graduated in March 2014 with a PhD in Space Physics at the University of the Western Cape, has been awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship by the USA National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
@NASA
Prof Tyrone Pretorius, Rector and Vice-Chancellor, earlier accompanied SRC President Mandla-Onke Notyawa and scores of UWC students to lay wreaths at the scene where student Kamva Dasi was murdered on Saturday evening in Belhar.
The University of the Western Cape has been declared one of the developing world’s top 200 higher education institutions, according to the
@timeshighered
Emerging Economies Rankings 2020 - a testament to how far UWC has come in its first 60 years.
#IamUWC
#Celebrating60Years
Dr Mary Hames, Director of the Gender Equity Unit (GEU). Dr Mary received a grant for the University of the Western Cape from Duchess of Sussex, her Royal Highness Meghan Markle
@HRH_Meghan
to promote gender equality. Today she talks about equity above equality.
#IamUWC
🏆🏉Congratulations to
@UWCSport
Rugby Player, Herschel Jantjies who has been nominated for the World Rugby Breakthrough Player of the Year 2019 award.
The winner will be revealed at the World Rugby Awards, which take place in Tokyo, Japan, on 3 November. Good luck Herschel!
[READ] The University of the Western Cape (UWC) mourns the passing of one of its legends – Professor Johannes Jacobus (Jaap) Fourie Durand, who fought bravely against the apartheid regime and was instrumental in erecting some of the institution’s most historic buildings.
#IamUWC
UWC take home gold in the Mixed Choirs Category at this year's World Choir Games. Don't believe us? See for yourself!
#UWCChoir
#WorldChoirGames
(VIDEO : N.Maphumulo)
Shireen Mentor of UWC has been chosen as one of 600 young scientists selected from 84 countries to be part of the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate later this year in Lindau, Germany. She is one of only 6 South African female scientists nominated to attend the meeting.
#CONGRATS
#UWC
[Youth Month] Few months ago
@IvynSambo
started the Student Investor podcast with the aim of starting a conversation amongst his peers about investing, budgeting and dealing with money in general.
#IAmUWC
[READ] Five student entrepreneurs will represent the University of the Western Cape at the Entrepreneurship Intervarsity competition regional leg next week (6 to 9 July 2020) after going through in the internal round.
#IamUWC
[READ] UWC Nuclear physicist Cebo Ngwetsheni is the first author of a groundbreaking paper on nuclear polarization published in Physics Letters - the journal in which the Nobel-deciding discovery of the Higgs boson - also known as "God particle" Read more:
[READ] Belhar cleaner-turned-teacher, Natasha Dietrich, says you're never too old to learn. The 47-year-old mother of two will receive her Bachelor of Education from the University of the Western Cape on 5 May. Read about her journey.
#IamUWC
#UWCGrad2021
The University of the Western Cape congratulates the Springboks on their incredible triumph at the 2019 Rugby World Cup. We are especially proud of five UWC alumni who played important roles during the competition.
read more:
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#SpringbokChampions
Congratulations to UWC alumna Thembi Kgatlana who was the biggest winner at the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Annual Awards last night, walking away with both the 2018 Women’s Player of the Year and the 2018 Goal of the Year awards
#ProudlyUWC
#AiteoCAFAwards18
[READ] UWC chemist Dr Fanelwa Ngece-Ajayi received a prestigious NRF Research Excellence Award for Early/Emerging Researchers on 12 September 2019, for her outstanding work both as a researcher and as a mentor to other young researchers. Read more:🔗
Prof
@RuthHallPLAAS
says of her appointment: “The land issue is at a crucial point. It's important to gather the best of academia, research, private sector and civil society to solve land reform problems. We're in problem solving mode and I'm honoured to be a part of the panel.”
In honour of Professor Brian O'Connell, the University of the Western Cape has lowered its flags to half-mast this week. Professor O’Connell served as Rector from 2001 to 2014 but he was also a student at UWC in the mid-1960s.
#IAmUWC
The
@UWCLawFaculty
is very proud to share the news of the appointment of Ms Yvonne Dausab as the Minister of Justice in Namibia as from 22 March 2020.
#IamUWC
UWC thanks The Foschini Group for generously donating more than R500 000 towards our
#NoStudentWillBeLeftBehind
appeal to equip students in need.
Thanks to our donors, UWC has raised over R20 million.
For online donations:
#IamUWC
#COVID19
[ANNOUNCEMENT] The University of the Western Cape's Executive Management will communicate its plan of action following the president's pronouncement of a Covid-19 State of Disaster. The plan will be communicated tomorrow after the EMC meeting.
#COVID19
[READ] UWC has been acknowledged, yet again, as one of the premier teaching and research institutions in South Africa and the world, according to the recent Center for World University Rankings 2020/2021.
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#UWC60
[READ] ICT expert and University of the Western Cape (UWC) alumna Lillian Barnard will be the first woman to serve as Managing Director of Microsoft South Africa since the company reinvested in the country in the early 1990s. Read more here:
[READ] UWC’s Dean of Education, Professor Vuyokazi Nomlomo, has received a R10-million DHET grant to establish a new Centre for African Language Teaching (CALT) to develop a generation of teachers better able to educate learners in isiXhosa.
#IamUWC
[VACANCY] The Council of UWC seeks to appoint a suitably qualified and accomplished leader of high professional and exceptional academic standing as the new Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape.
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“We were not there when you walked a lonely road, nor were we there when the times got hard, and the going got tough. But you made it!”- Rector and Vice-Chancellor: Prof Tyrone Pretorius.
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#UWCGrad2023
Of the over 22 000 students at UWC, 60% are women. Three of the seven Deans are women. And all the Deputy Vice-Chancellors are women. And that’s just the beginning - there are many other amazing women at UWC. Check out the list here:
[READ] UWC Associate Professor Carolina Ödman has been shortlisted for this year’s prestigious National Science and Technology Forum-South32 Awards, popularly known as the “Science Oscars of South Africa”. Prof
@carolune
is a finalist for the Communication Award.
#IamUWC
@NSTF_SA
[READ] We can confirm that one of our students, charged with attempted murder in a gender-based violence incident, has been suspended from campus and all residences associated with the University of the Western Cape (UWC).
#IAmUWC
UWC’s Dr Fanelwa Ngece-Ajayi is an activist for the public understanding of science in the poorest communities of Cape Town, and a research leader in nanobiosensors, so her nomination to the South African Young Academy of Science is richly deserved.
[READ] UWC proudly congratulates Professor Julia Sloth-Nielsen, who holds a Chair in Public Law at the University, on receiving an A-rating from the National Research Foundation (
@NRF_News
). She is also the University’s first A-rated
#WomanResearcher
.
#IamUWC
@UWCLawFaculty
Dear Campus Community
One of South Africa’s greatest poets, Sandile Dikeni, passed away on Saturday. Dikeni, was a University of the Western Cape SRC member and an anti-apartheid activist during the 1980s.
The University sends its condolences to the family and friends of Dikeni.
Rector and Vice-Chancellor Prof Tyrone Pretorius describes the significance of extending UWC’s footprint to the Bellville CBD - with the unveiling of the new Faculty of Community & Health Sciences building on Tuesday. Read about our role as an anchor institution in
@WeekendArgus
[READ] One of South Africa’s most revered figures has passed away. At UWC, where Desmond Tutu served as Chancellor for 25 years, and as inspiration and guide before and since, we mourn his death. We will forever celebrate his life and follow his example.
#IamUWC
[WATCH] Instead of blowing out candles on his 8th birthday, Sibusiso Labi fed his siblings, changed nappies and put them to bed. Thanks to an innovative collaboration between
@SamsungSA
and the UWC, the 20-year-old is pursuing his dream of becoming a software developer.
#IamUWC
[READ] Six UWC stars get Banyana call-up
UWC rising football star, Bongeka Gamede, has been selected for the Banyana Banyana team set to participate in the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France, taking the UWC Banyana Banyana contingent to six
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